{"id":227,"date":"2009-09-12T16:16:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob-ak.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-09-12T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:29:28","slug":"a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"A conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was looking through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\">Ted<\/a> talks the other night and ended up watching a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories.html\">talks<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Harris_(artist)\">Jonathan Harris<\/a>. I really didn&#8217;t like him at first, probably because he&#8217;s young, extremely intelligent and actually uses his skills for doing something worth while and I certainly don&#8217;t!. But as I watched his second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jonathan_harris_collects_stories.html\">talk<\/a> I began to understand a little about him and what he&#8217;s trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>While browsing JH&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.number27.org\/\">website<\/a> I came across one of his projects called <a href=\"http:\/\/sptnk.org\/\">Sputnik Observatory<\/a>. The first video I happened to click on was this one below. Absolutely fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"460\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"VE_Player\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/sptnk.org\/config.xml&amp;bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;type=conversation&amp;id=7184&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;forcePlay=false\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/ne.edgecastcdn.net\/000402\/swfs\/videoplayer.swf\" \/><embed id=\"VE_Player\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"460\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/ne.edgecastcdn.net\/000402\/swfs\/videoplayer.swf\" wmode=\"transparent\" scale=\"noscale\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/sptnk.org\/config.xml&amp;bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;type=conversation&amp;id=7184&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;forcePlay=false\" align=\"middle\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was looking through Ted talks the other night and ended up watching a couple of talks by Jonathan Harris. I really didn&#8217;t like him at first, probably because he&#8217;s young, extremely intelligent and actually uses his skills for doing something worth while and I certainly don&#8217;t!. But as I watched his second talk I began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}